Memoirs of a Lost Dreamer

Dinner Dance

There was an 8th Grade Dinner Dance last Friday at school. What I expected to be boring turned out to be an amazing night.

Dress - Windsor | Shoes - Call it Spring | Accessories - Charming Charlie

Rocking those 4-inch heels.

My mom was so (I can’t emphasize that enough) mad at me because she thought that I was curling my hair already 2 hours prior to the dance. But I didn’t prepare until 20 minutes before the dance since I’ve been watching videos and lost track of time. She was in awe because I got to prepare in 20 minutes. Haha.

Annalee, Diana, Maddie, and Katie.

Some of my friends and I arrived 30 minutes before the dance to take pictures at the park near our school.

Everyone looked beautiful and handsome at the dance. Far from the usual sweater-and-pants getup of everyone lol. I stole this photo from my classmate by the way. Haha. The pictures of the place on this post are stolen as well.

The theme of our dance was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The school didn’t look like it when we came. The decorations were pretty amazing. Hands down to the parents who helped organize the dance.

My friends planned before to bring me to Portillos during the dance because we thought it would be boring. But we decided not to go because the dance was so fun.

Emily in blue and Michelle in purple. Emily is the one who has brain cancer :(

If you’re wondering, Mr. Jonak is our principal haha.

All of us got to take home a bunch of chocolates and candies. Everyone probably had sugar rush when we got home.

Keely on my right. Everyone looks so pretty! *o*

My feet hurt like hell after awhile so I removed my heels and was barefoot, like most girls, during the dance.

Diana and Alex. HAHAHA. She’s mad at me for taking this picture of them doing the swing lol. Alex asked her to the dance but she didn’t want to go with him and he got sad. Then Diana felt guilty and asked him to dance. Hahahahaha.

Maddie, Diana, and I made a tequila (inside joke) and swag dance lololol. We were doing it in front of the teachers to see if they would know what we were doing. Haha The teachers saw our (kind of) wild side since my friends and I are all quiet in classes but we were dancing crazily during the dance. It was a very fun night for everyone! I want to have a dance/party again after our graduation.

Posted on: Sunday, May 19, 2013 with 20 love notes ♥

Rants About School

My laptop’s hard drive (I think) broke and all of my files are now gone
Which means that the videos that I was editing for our Honors Lit. project are gone as well, and we need to present them by Wednesday
I still need to buy supplies for my Einstein and Harlem Renaissance posters
We totally forgot about the Harlem Renaissance until my friend texted me about it
We still need to film one more video
And I need to edit three videos again
But whenever I import files Sony Vegas Pro would say that it can’t detect the files
I need to write an article and it’s due on Tuesday
I also need to finish carving King Tut’s body out of foam
If it weren’t for that girl in my class we wouldn’t be presenting on Wednesday. She always just thinks of herself and is too insensitive of what other people feels. She knows that we didn’t want to present but she kept on pressing us and we had no choice because the teacher was starting to get mad at us
And I really don’t know how I’m going to do all these things. UGHHHHHHHHHH
Romeo and Juliet is so boring
I just want this week to be over already
As well as next, next week because it’s our finals week
And I need to get straight A+’s in all of them
God please help me
Or maybe someone out there wants to help me, no?

Posted on: Monday, May 13, 2013 with 6 love notes ♥

Mom,

I am thankful for everything that you have done for me. You take care of me, put up with me, and love me unconditionally. If I were you I would have given up on myself a long time ago. But you didn’t, and I thank you for that. We’ve been through a lot of hardships and yet we still stay strong. You honed me into the person I have become. You are beautiful inside and out. No words can express how much I love you.

Your daughter, Hannah

Posted on: Sunday, May 12, 2013 with 14 love notes ♥

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Posted on: Saturday, May 11, 2013 with 4 love notes ♥

Life lately in bullets:

Reading Looking for Alaska. So far, so good. Props to John Green! (And as you can see on the photo above, my laptop’s mouse broke.)
Stressful days ahead. I need to write a 5-paged argument paper about Brave New World, work on our Decades project, where we need to write papers about the important things in our chosen decade (ours is 1920) and present for 45 minutes in class, carve King Tut out of foam, read Romeo and Juliet and other things related to Shakespeare, finish drawing something for art class, make a photo story with voice over (which I hate) and a whole lot more. I’m probably going to drink cups of coffee every night just to finish all these things.
There was a contest in our school for naming some Starbucks drinks and if you win, you’ll get a free drink when you go to Barnes and Noble. My friends randomly joined and they were being sarcastic about the names (Fat Booster & This Will Go to My Hips, anyone?) and Maddie wrote Colon Uppercase D for one of the drinks and put my name on it. When they were announcing the winners I was so surprised that my name was called. I was laughing so hard because I didn’t even name it and I won. I got the drink when we went to Barnes and Noble, plus I got 5 extra credits for Honors Lit. and got to buy the summer reading book for incoming 9th grade Honors Lit. students (the book is a graphic novel of The Odyssey and I do not know why we need to read that instead of the real book) and Looking for Alaska. I had a hard time deciding which books to buy since I always want to buy every book when I go to bookstores. Hashtag problems of a bookworm.
We had a contest in Social Studies and my group needed to present two commercials about WPB and propaganda used in WWII. Annalee and I made a song to the tune of Adventure Time (she insisted) and we played our ukulele and violin while singing it in class. Except that I only played two notes because I didn’t hear her say ‘go’ and I got lost. Hahaha. I was so embarrassed. We made a parody of the Geico commercial for our other one and Annalee and I randomly strummed our instruments when we were done. And guess what? We won! Which means that the four of us got three chocolates from our teacher. But I gave one to Maddie because she named the Starbucks drink that she should’ve had, if she didn’t put my name on it. Lol.
We got our invitation to the dinner dance and it was a Hershey’s bar with the invitation wrapped around it. The theme of our dance is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (whyyy). I already bought my dress a week ago, and I recently bought accessories to go with it, as well as heels, which are 3 inches tall. I’m pretty sure that I’ll trip and be the laughing stock of everyone. Hahaha.
Aaand I should be doing my homework right now instead of typing this.

Have a blessed Sunday, everyone!

Posted on: Sunday, May 5, 2013 with 18 love notes ♥

A Little Fancy

Dress - a store in Philippines // Blazer - Joyce Leslie // Flats - Tory Burch

This was what I wore to our field trip last Friday. We were all required to wear something formal to the Anne Frank play. The field trip was scheduled 2 weeks ago but due to the heavy rain on the day of the trip, it was rescheduled a week later. Anyhow, I’ve had the dress that I wore for at least 3 years already but I only wore it twice, and this was the third time :P

Overall, the play wasn’t great. The characters were over-exaggerating and they were really loud. There were parts of the play (we read the script in class) where the character who’s talking was supposed to be calm but in the live play, s/he was shouting his/her lines. To be honest, if the play was real they might have been caught by the police already from the very beginning. When we came back to school we watched The Boy in the Striped Pajama and it was so depressing. Huhu. The teachers also did some presentation about the Holocaust, which was sad as well.

I went to my friend’s house afterwards because I needed to get something for our project. We saw a pretty cherry blossom tree near someone’s house and we took pictures of it. When I was walking back to the road, I stepped on water and mud and I got my foot wet. I was carrying my shoe all the way to my friend’s house and she was taking pictures of me the whole time we were going there. Lol.

P.S. I look so fat in these photos. Well, I guess it’s just because I am fat lol. My classmate said that I’m suffering from hannorexia, which is a disorder where you eat everything you see. Hahaha.

Posted on: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 with 16 love notes ♥

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